Evangelicals a Liberal Can Love

Nicholas Kristof acknowledges what we already know, liberals are nearly as tolerant as they think they are. He should know. He is one. Yet in this NYT OP-ED piece, Evangelicals a Liberal Can Love, Kristof confesses that liberals need to open their minds to the fact that those who would be identified as evangelicals have changed and are not the monolithic group they used to be. "At a New York or Los Angeles cocktail party, few would dare make a pejorative comment about Barack Obama's race or Hillary Clinton's sex. Yet it would be easy to get away with deriding Mike Huckabee's religious faith. Liberals believe deeply in tolerance and over the last century have led the battles against prejudices of all kinds, but we have a blind spot about Christian evangelicals. They constitute one of the few minorities that, on the American coasts or university campuses, it remains fashionable to mock. Scorning people for their faith is intrinsically repugnant, and in this case it also betrays a profound misunderstanding of how far evangelicals have moved over the last decade." Thank you Mr. Kristof for this very honest and thoughtful piece. But honestly there have always been evangelicals concerned with justice and compassion. You've just never heard about them. Most of them were too busy doing it, rather than fighting for the spotlight with Jerry & Pat. I wonder what this says about us as evangelicals, when a self described 'liberal' journalists finds us more likable. Either we have adjust to his expectations, or maybe we've become more like Jesus. I hope it's the latter.